Saidels Bakery information

Saidels Bakery (now named Saidel Jewish Baking Center - S.J.B.C) was the first true artisan bakery in Israel. Established by Les and Sheryl Saidel in 2008 and located in the Samarian village of Karnei Shomron, the bakery was originally opened to fill a need for fresh-baked, authentic, artisan and organic healthy Jewish bread.

Its center of operation is the only Ovencrafters designed brick oven in the Middle East, in which all baked products - artisan breads, organic health breads and pastry, are manufactured using ancient artisan methods. The bakery is also notable as the only bakery in the country that grinds its own stone ground organic whole grain flour, using a vintage stone mill.

The Saidel Jewish Baking Center is most noted however for its exclusive "Maimonides Bread"., (also known as Rambam Bread), a health bread that is baked using a unique process, based on the writings of the scholar and physician Maimonides, which reduces the gluten quantity of the bread.

Pioneering the dissemination of knowledge about healthy, artisan baking in Israel, the bakery expanded to become what is now the Saidel Jewish Baking Center (S.J.B.C), a center for training, consulting, conducting exhibitions and demonstrations on anything related to Jewish bread, artisan baking, health and nutrition. The S.J.B.C also offers consulting services, provides lectures and tours for groups or individuals and is instrumental in raising the awareness of the benefits of healthy, old-world style artisan baking.